Men will dramatically outnumber women within decades due to 'cultural ...

Men will dramatically outnumber women within decades due to 'cultural ...
Men will dramatically outnumber women within decades due to 'cultural ...
Men will dramatically outnumber women within decades due to 'cultural preferences' for boys and prenatal sex selection, study finds Research showed states with skewed sex ratios will lose 4.7million girls by 2030 Lead author Dr Fengqing Chao called for 'legal frameworks' for 'gender equality' Results projected in a model using three billion birth records from 204 countries

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Men will dramatically outnumber women within decades because of 'cultural preferences' for boys and prenatal sex selection, a study has found. 

The paper, published in the journal BMJ Global Health, blamed cultural preferences for boys for causing uneven ratios and projected a 'conservative' deficit of 4.7million female births by 2030.

Researchers also said prenatal sex selection had led to skewed ratios at birth in countries across the globe since the 1970s.

They warned over one third of the world's population

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